RE: Åland

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 07:47:11 CST

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    At 12:07 +0100 2005-11-02, Kent Karlsson wrote:
    > > >The English name for the territory code "GB" is "United Kingdom"...
    >>
    >> Strictly speaking, you should say "The English name represented by
    >> the territory code 'GB' is 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and
    >> Northern Ireland'.
    >
    >Yes, but that is not the name stored in the CLDR "database" (for en),
    >nor in the 3166 MA's "database" (for English names), nor in
    >draft-ltru-initial-06
    >for GB.

    There are official long and short names.

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    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
    


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